# function printsum(a) println(summary(a), ": ", repr(a)) end # for i in 1:5 print(i, ", ") end #> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, # In loop definitions "in" is equivilent to "=" (AFAIK, the two are interchangable in this context) for i = 1:5 print(i, ", ") end println() #> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, # arrays can also be looped over directly: a1 = [1,2,3,4] for i in a1 print(i, ", ") end println() #> 1, 2, 3, 4, # **continue** and **break** work in the same way as python a2 = [1:20] for i in a2 if i % 2 != 0 continue end print(i, ", ") if i >= 8 break end end println() #> 2, 4, 6, 8, # if the array is being manipulated during evaluation a while loop shoud be used # [pop](http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#Base.pop!) removes the last element from an array while !isempty(a1) print(pop!(a1), ", ") end println() #> 4, 3, 2, 1, d1 = {1=>"one", 2=>"two", 3=>"three"} # dicts may be looped through using the keys function: for k in sort(collect(keys(d1))) print(k, ": ", d1[k], ", ") end println() #> 1: one, 2: two, 3: three, # like python [enumerate](http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#Base.enumerate) can be used to get both the index and value in a loop a3 = ["one", "two", "three"] for (i, v) in enumerate(a3) print(i, ": ", v, ", ") end println() #> 1: one, 2: two, 3: three, # (note enumerate starts from 1 since Julia arrays are 1 indexed unlike python) # [map]() works as you might expect performing the given function on each member of an array or iter much like comprehensions a4 = map((x) -> x^2, [1, 2, 3, 7]) printsum(a4) #> 4-element Array{Int64,1}: [1,4,9,49]